The Art of Resistance

The Art of Resistance is a library of art and posters featuring acts of political action from all over the world. Located at the Black Bear Bakery in St. Louis, the archive contains over 100 works of art and posters. Volunteers frame posters with professional quality and display them for public viewing. Our mission is to showcase a variety of ideas & activities as well as poster/educational styles & techniques, including photocopied, silkscreened and printed. The collection showcases the variety of ideas & activities influencing many different segments of society including art, labor, environmentalism, queers, and women. We aim to display various poster/propaganda styles & techniques, including photocopied, silkscreened and printed. We balance current material with historical, popular with obscure, English with other languages, events & actions with ideas, etc.

We are looking for art, propaganda, drivel, doodle, collage, silk screens, prints, posters, flyers, leaflets, block prints, broadsides, book, zine & album covers, etc. The material can publicize gatherings, protests, events, etc. So please send a bit of biographical information about the designers &/or back ground about the posters themselves. Who made this poster & why, how was it made, what size is it, how would you classify the style (i.e. 2 color block print), when & where is it from, what else has the designer done, background about the issue, event or action that this poster is addressing. We are also looking for donations of picture frames, glass, and other poster holding devices or cases particularly from those in the St. Louis area. All submissions are considered donations and cannot be returned.

Queer march/Black Block by Love and Rage in Mexico City
April 1993

A small sampling of the world-wide collection featuring posters and art from:

ST. LOUIS:
"Emma Goldman mugshot" Wayne St. Wayne
"Fred Hampton" "Oaxaca molotov" by Leanne
"Total Knockout" Benchpress Burlesque
“Ricardo Flores Magon: Tierra y Libertad” by Monica
"Safe Food and Family Farms" Centro Sociale

US:
"Machias Grange" Beehive Collective
"Bread" By Bread and Puppet Theater
"Share your Table" Nikki McClure
People's History Poster Series Josh MacPhee
"El Aqua es Nuestra Carajo!"
"Durruti Column"
"ACT UP Philadelphia"
"Paul Robeson"
"Free Mumia Abu Jamal"
"Las Mujeres Libres" Christy C.
"Matches and Mayhem" Chicago Azone 2001
"Active Resistance" Chicago Azone 1996

MEXICO: "Marcha Queer" Love and Rage

BRAZIL: "Xo Imperialistas ALCA Nao"

ENGLAND: "Life Can Be Magic" Clifford Harper

GREECE: "Anti Etaeh Topa"

DENMARK: "Directe Axie" De Nar

GERMANY: "Anti Faschistische Aktion"

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: "Praha 2000"

THAILAND: "Punx Unite" Chaos City